Beach livin'
Email home:
"Kelly,
We are in Goa and doing so much better. It is beautiful here with Colorful houses, the beach, pam trees and nicer people. We may even go dancing tonight!
We will be here for 3 more days and then off to the jungle. Sitting at a small internet cafe, no internet in the hostel. Excited to evntually show you pics bt prob not until we are done with our journeys...(home stuff)..
Love,
Briana"
Email Responses:
"Love to hear you are good! We made it back to Houston on way To San Francisco yet tonite Will try to write more tomorrow! -Big loves, Mom"
"Oh good! I am so glad it is better for you. Sounds beautiful, and right up my alley with the beach:) How is Travis?...(home stuff) Be careful in the jungle. -Love you, Kelly"
Journal entry:
(side note: it's hard to write a blog after the fact because you start to idealize your trip, and only want to share the good things. I debated whether or not to share my journal entry, and not just my happy, positive email, because it portrays 'Negative Briana', someone who always has something to complain about, on this trip and throughout life. While it is true that India is a hard place to travel, and I felt tired, hungry and agitated a lot of the trip, it seems silly now to write about those things because I have so many wonderful memories to share. In the end, I have decided to share my entry, because I want to express the whole truth: about me, about India (in case you decide to journey there). Maybe in expressing the whole truth I will start to come out of my negative shell and look at the blessings I have in my life in the future and in future writing...??)
"We've been in Goa for a day and a 1/2 now. It was a beautiful drive into our first beach town, Calangute, about an hour from the airport. Colorful houses, palm trees, open land. Travis was so excited yesterday, jubilant, that he had found his next place to live. He was picturing a colorful house with a garden, riding around on Mopeds, maybe even going home during the Monsoon season. I got nervous thinking about living in India, even if it was Goa!? 'Maybe we could paint our house in the US/Canada a bright color and have a garden there?' haha
Today was a little different. We got scammed again. At the beach we thought the people who worked at the cafe where we sat on lounge chairs were just being friendly, chatting. In actuality the 2 ladies, Fatima and ?, were selling massages and the guy from 'the mountains' was selling hand carved elephants and things that 'he carved himself.' (Every store we proceeded to go into the rest of our trip had these hand carved pieces, and it became a running joke that we 'knew the artist who made all these') It was just hard because we were asking him questions, he was telling us about his family, and in the end all it was was a big scam. Sigh. I'm sticky and dirty from this humidity."
The beautiful drive into Goa:
In case you've never seen it, this is Travis' 'smirker' face! I do anything I can to see this face. I love it when my sweetie is happy. He's falling in love with goa here...
What colorful houses!
Open fields:
Waiting for the bus?
The first hotel we stayed at in Goa:
It had a pool!
And we played pool by that pool...
And then we proceeded to drink by the pool..
Kingfisher of course..
'For sale in Goa only'
'Our Lady of ... Pray For Us'!
Then we slept
We showered in the same room as we went to the bathroom in, and the same room we washed our clothes in the bucket(the bucket is for washing yourself in India, showering washing, and going #2 washing...but we put that out of our minds and washed our clothes in said bucket) , and the same room we brushed our teeth in...
rooftop rainwater collector I think
Beautiful tree and flowers on road to beach
Beach Moments:
Indian healer
dog getting shade!
Russian Belly :)
B on the Beach
On the beach and on the way back from the beach, cows!
Things for sale:
And yes, this guy was 'for sale' or rather his impromptu decorated cow dancing on top of his chest act was for sale, in front of our hotel when we were leaving, wanting money for said services and of course because I took a picture.
1 comment:
Not sure where to post this but I wanted to ask if anyone has heard of National Clicks?
Can someone help me find it?
Overheard some co-workers talking about it all week but didn't have time to ask so I thought I would post it here to see if someone could help me out.
Seems to be getting alot of buzz right now.
Thanks
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